Poetry

“Many English writers try hard to create a genuinely transatlantic feel to their work. John Harvey is one of the very few who succeed, and the results are marvellous.”Ian McMillanamazon.co.uk

Bluer Than This, Smith/Doorstop Books, 1998

“Harvey is a fine poet. What is perhaps most striking in Bluer Than This is Harvey’s extraordinary empathy. His insights into the minds and hearts of others – there is a tenderness here that many British poets do not risk.”John Burnside

Coolness and smoothness have always been the twin trademarks of John Harvey’s poetry, but I detect in these poems a tenderness and warnth that make the writing even more wothwhile. From the heart now, as well as the hip.”Simon Armitage

Poetry: the Nottingham Collection, Edited by John Lucas, Five Leaves, 2005

Journals and magazines

The Lineup is an annual magazine of crime-related poetry edited by Gerald So. The 2009 issue contains two of my poems, a reworking of “Always Chinatown”, which appeared in Bluer Than This, and a little poem called “Story”, which had never previously been published – there are poems also by, amongst others, Sophie Hannah, Carol Novak, Manuel Ramos and the redoubtable Reed Farrel Coleman.

Check it out at The Lineup’s official blog here Copies may be purchased here.